Overview

Inbox Mailbag

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Inbox Mailbag lets you treat your inbox as yet another bag that you can take things from. It will collate items into singular stacks and supports search hilighting to help you find specific items within your inbox.

For instance, I keep a supply of Pandaren cooking foods in my inbox, and use this addon to help search through the messages to find the cooking materials I need.

2.0 Features

This new version attempts to add a selection of options for more advanced users.

Advanced mode for retrieving gold from your mail

Quality Colors to tell your blues from your greens

Making Inbox Mailbag your default Mailbox page

These all need to be enabled under the options panel at Interface -> Addons -> Inbox Mailbag

A big thank you to Partha for their help refining my additions. And thank you to BNSSNB for localization to Chinese.

I tried out your solution and I think it's gonna be better. You can leave them stacked, and when you need just one you can unstack and take the stack you want, it's still easy to find and really a little bit more powerful that way too.

I also keep a lot of items in my mail like foods, potions, ores, etc. When I need some more I just grab 1 stack and leave the rest there for when I need more. That's why I requested the option.

What I did was modified the OnClick function to just take the last stack instead of cycling through them all. Then when I wanted to take them all I just spam clicked the stack, lol. But a checkbox to switch is a much more refined way of doing it.

This way it keeps the items all stacked together for a nice clean look, but still allows you to take just 1 stack at a time. Of course it would need to be modified to check for the [take one stack / take all] option and then run this code or run your original code. But the way you did it on the most recent version also has it's benefits, I'll have to try it out, it may be better that way.

Thanks again for this addon. I actually look forward to getting my mail now just so I can use this again, especially when somebody lists 168 stacks of 1 of some ore that I want to buy.

I think I like the checkbox option as it has the most visible effect. In its simplest take it could be '[x] Consolidate Stacks' which is fairly easy to toggle in code. Though at that point I don't know if I would just leave it as stacks in Mailbox order. (wildfowl 10, leek seed 5, mogu seed 6, wildfowl 5) or try to apply a sorting to it. (read it from the mailbox in the above order, but force a sort to be wildfowl 10, wildfowl 5, leek seed 5, mogu seed 6) Though it means the sorting could easily jump around depending on which stack you grabbed. I can't say I'm in favor of sorting.

I have to say this is one of the best new addons I have seen in a long time. The idea is just pure genius. So much better than the other addons that take all your mail, and helps you find things so much faster. Thank you very much.

The only thing I modified was to make it take 1 stack at a time for each click. Maybe a check box on the bag tab to let you switch between taking all stacks or one at a time, or maybe a right-click option on the item to let you pick which ones you want would make it even better.